HD Video Share: User Manual

HD Video Share
User Manual
Table of Contents
Preface 2
About This Document 2
Disclaimer2
Getting Started 3
Overview3
Features List 4
Installation Steps 4
License key 6
Assigning the component in Joomla 7
Configuration 8
Member Videos 8
Member Details 8
Admin Videos 9
Product version: 3.5.1 Add New Video 9
Category 15
Joomla Compatibility Player Settings 15
Version 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 2.5 and 3.x Site Settings 19
Google Adsense 21
Video Ads 21
Front End 23
Login23
My Videos 23
Video Upload 23
Free Add-ons 24
HVS Article 24
HVS Komento 25
FAQ 26
Contact Us 27
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Preface
PREFACE
About This Document
This document provides information on how to download, install, configure and use our Joomla HD Video
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Share.
Disclaimer
Apptha reserves the rights to add, remove, modify business models, processes related to packaging,
selling, marketing, developing extensions and themes of Apptha.com at any time and without prior
notification. Apptha reserves the rights to add new features to its products based on research and market
needs. Apptha reserves the rights to remove any feature of its products that does not fulfill expectations.
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Getting Started
Overview
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HD Video Share is an efficient online video sharing extension for Joomla which provides flash and
HTML 5 support. Additionally, videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Viddler and Daily Motion can be embedded
via HD Video Share. This is available in an easy-to-install package which allows you to start sharing
videos on your website, within minutes.
The Major reason for the success of this extension is the regular updates . HD Video Share always
aims at top customer satisfaction. Though we don’t provide the source file of the player we are flexible
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enough in customize the player based on the customer’s request at very low cost. We trust that you
will enjoy the process and can then look forward towards tailoring HD Video Share to your own specific
requirements.
Installing and using HD Video Share is generally straight forward, getting your perfect Web site takes a
lot more effort but there is much, as you will discover, that has been done to make the process easier
along the way. This component comes with few free modules. By using these free modules, you can
change your Joomla website into a video sharing website like YouTube and Vimeo.
It includes the following modules:
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1. Search Videos.
2. Featured Video.
3. Video Category.
4. Recent Videos.
5. Related Videos.
6. Popular Videos.
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Features List
• Supports Lighttpd, RTMP, Live telecast and Amazon S3 Streaming
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• Add YouTube, Vimeo, Viddler, Daily Motion videos and embed codes from other media
• Supports ffmpeg which converts video to ‘.flv’ format and generates thumb and preview image
• Monetize by displaying preroll, postroll, google adsense, VAST ads in the player
• Restrict videos based on user privileges
• Simple to customize/manage modules
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• Facebook/Disqus/Komento comments systemcan be choosen from the backend
• Enable/disable download, Share, Volume, Full screen, High definition, Timer, Zoom, buffer time from
backend
• Set logo target from the backend
• Set your own logo/copyright on purchasing premium license
• Complete control over number of columns and rows in the side modules
• Customize the player skin from backend
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• Add 2 srt files from backend for displaying Captions in front-end
• Add videos to K2/Article page using short code
• Store media files in Amazon s3 bucket tip
• Extract video RSS feeds
• Free JomSocial add-on can be used to synchronize the videos between HD Video Share and JomSocial
social networking site
Installation Steps
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Downloading HD Video Share Plugin
HD Video Share for Joomla is available in two different versions: Free Version and Pro Version.
Free Version :
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The free version is suitable for non-commercial needs. The free package contains demo logo which serves
for our own branding purpose. This package can be downloaded by clicking on “Free Download” button.
http://www.apptha.com/category/extension/Joomla/HD-Video-Share
Pro Version :
The Pro version can be used for commercial business purposes as it doesn’t possess our own logo. By
applying the commercial license key, you can remove our demo logo effortlessly. The commercial license
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can be purchased for your website by offering a onetime fee.
The Commercial license can be purchased by clicking the button “Buy Now” in the following page.
After purchasing the extension from www.apptha.com, kindly go to My Account-> My Downloadable

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Product to download the package.
If you are using Free version of HD Video Share and if you have purchased the License then you can just
enter the License key in the admin without Re-installing the component.

Installing HD Video Share Plugin
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For Joomla 2.5
Go to Joomla Admin --> Extensions --> Extension Manager
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Now choose the Video share file and click ‘Upload & Install’.
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Once the installation is completed, the message shown in the screenshot will be displayed.
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For Joomla 3.2
Go to Joomla Admin --> Extensions --> Extension Manager
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Now choose the Video share file and click ‘Upload & Install’.
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Once the installation is completed, the message shown in the screenshot will be displayed.
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License key
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How to generate license key
To generate the license key, Select “Generate License” in the left hand side of your account in
www.apptha.com and you can generate the license key with your Order number, Product name
and the Domain name.
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Applying license key
License – Once you generate the license key, apply it using below steps to remove the demo logo
from the player.
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Go to Admin -> Components -> ContusHDVideoShare -> player settings -> Enter the license key and
save the settings.
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Assigning the component in Joomla
To assign this component for a

menu, Log on to Joomla Admin ->
Menus -> Your_Menu_name. Here
select the menu item type where you
want to assign the component, Click
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“select” -> choose “Home” under
Contus HD Video Share from the
popup.
Select “Home” under Contus HD Video Share from the popup.

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Configuration
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Member Videos
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The videos added by the users in the front end will be displayed here. You can
1. Sort the videos by drag and drop.
2. You can modify the comments under comment column.
3. The corresponding streamer name, streamer path, videos link, thumbnail link for that member’s
added video will be displayed under the responding columns.
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4. Also can view the postroll ads, preroll ads and midroll ads.
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5. You can search/filter videos of any user
6. You can view ratings and number of views of any video.
7. You can view/delete videos of any particular user.
8. You can publish or un-publish any videos added by users
9. You can enable /disable featured option for videos. If Enable is chosen for a video, then it will be
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included in the featured videos list.
Member Details
Admin can view all the details of the users who had signed up and can control them here.
1. Admin can change the status of any particular user as “Publish Item/Unpublish Item”.
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2. Admin can enable /disable upload option for particular user.

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Admin Videos
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Here you can manage all your videos. HD Video Share accepts both streaming and normal way of
playing videos. By default it is set to None, where you can add videos through following methods
including Upload, Direct URL, YouTube URL and FFMPEG. Embed Code option is also available on
Premium version.
After adding the videos via any of the above methods, kindly update the video info section where you
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can add Title, Description, Target URL for the video, assign Category, sort order(recently we added Ajax
sorting where you can sort the videos simply by Clicking and dragging from the Videos tab), enable post
roll and pre roll ad for the respective videos.
Add New Video
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Title - Enter a title for the video that you add.
Description - Here you can provide description for the video that you have added.

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Tags – These tags will be displayed below the video in front end. It helps user to find the page using
relevant keywords through search engines. It also helps your site visitors to search videos through
“Search videos” .
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Target URL - Users can be redirected to this particular URL when clicking on this video
Filter By Category - You can filter the categories listed in the “Category” dropbox alphabetically
Category - Choose the category of this video from this dropdown
Order - You can enter a number which describes in which order a video should displayed in the
featured video. Alternatively, in the ‘Admin videos’ grid you can use the little green arrow on the left, to
drag and drop the videos in whichever order you want.
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User Access Level - You can set the access for the video which you have added like Public,
Registered, Special, Guest and Super Users.
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Post-roll ads - You can enable/disable Post-roll ad (Ad at the end of video), and choose the ad from
the dropdown.
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Pre-roll ads - You can enable/disable Pre-roll ad (Ad at the beginning of video), and choose the ad
from the dropdown.
Mid-roll ad - Enable or Disable the banner ad while playing the video.
IMA ad - Enable or Disable the Intermediate ad while playing the video.

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Download Video - You can enable /disable the download option for video.
Status – Publish/Unpublish this video.

Adding Videos through File Method
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This method is used to upload the videos and images from your local disk.
Upload Video -
Click on “Choose File” and
select the video file from
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your local disk and then
click “Upload Video”.
Upload HD Video -
select the HD video file from
your local disk and then
click “Upload Video”. This is
optional.
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Upload Thumb Image -
select the image from your
local disk and then click
“Upload Thumb Image”.
Upload Preview Image - Click on “Choose File” and select the image from your local disk and then
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click “Upload Preview Image”. This is optional.
Subtitle - You can upload .srt files to enable subtitle option for your videos. And for now you can set two
different languages for that particular video. However, ensure to enter a valid language (e.g. “English” or
“Russian”) in the “Subtitle 1 or 2 language” field as shown in the figure.
Below this, there is a video info section where you can add Title, Description, assign category, download,
post-roll, preroll ads for this video as mentioned earlier.
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Adding videos through URL method:
Upload the videos and images through FTP to any location on your web server.
You can add videos and images

in the respective video/image
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folder on your web server and

provide the absolute path here.
Example: http://www.
yourdomain.com/videos/video.
mp4
http://www.yourdomain.com/
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images/image.jpg

Adding videos from YouTube /Vimeo/ Dailymotion and Viddler :
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To avoid bandwidth consumption from your web server you can also add videos from YouTube /
Vimeo / Dailymotion and Viddler and provide link here.
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Note: Generate Details option will appear only when you paste YouTube link. This is used to generate
the video title and description directly from Youtube.
Adding portion of videos from Youtube:
Here are the steps:
1. Please go to the Youtube website and open a video. For example https://www.youtube.com/
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watch?v=BW-q5Wx6ZQ8&t=1m20s
2. Click the share button which is in the bottom of the video.
3. You will get the ‘Start at’ tab and you can enter the minutes at which you want start your video.
4. Now you will get a URL or link at the left side tab near the ‘Start at’ tab.
5. You can use that link and add the video in your admin panel so that only the portion of YouTube
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videos will be played.
Adding videos through FFMPEG:

Before you start uploading the videos using FFMPEG, make sure whether your server has FFMPEG
installed. Now please provide the server path of your FMPEG on the "HD Video Share Settings". If you
are not sure about the path, kindly contact your hosting provider for the details.
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After you set the path to FFMPEG you can upload any HD files and convert it to ‘.flv’ format. The
thumbnail image and the preview image will be created automatically.

Adding videos through Lighttpd:
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Lighttpd (pronounced “lighty”)
is an open-source web server
optimized for speed-critical
environments while remaining
standards-compliant, secure
and flexible. You can add
videos from Lighttpd server
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same like adding videos
through URL method. Provide
the path to Non HD or HD
videos or both the path (if you
need). Also provide the path
to the thumb and preview
image.
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Adding videos through RTMP
With Hd Video share we can stream RTMP videos, the RTMP video URL is
Streamer path : rtmp://server-ip-address/folder name

Video URL : videoname.flv
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For instance: rtmp://edge01.
fms.dutchview.nl/botr/
bunnyflv
Streamer path = [protocol]/
[server name]/[application]
URL= [stream name]
1. [Protocol]: You can use the
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following protocols: rtmp,
rtmpt, rtmpe, rtmpte, rtmps
2. [Server name]: This is the

IP Address, or the domain
name of your server. (i.e.,
localhost).
3. [Application]: Use “vod”

unless you have changed the
name of the folder.
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4. [Stream name]: Use the

name of your video file (in-
cluding the extension).
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rtmp://localhost/vod/mp4:mystream.f4v
rtmpe://localhost/vod/myvideo.flv

When adding RTMP videos we need to provide few details:
Streamer Path - You need to provide the streamer path as
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“rtmp://edge01.fms.dutchview.nl/botr/”
Is Live - This option is to enable/disable whether the video is live or not.
Video URL - You need to provide the video URL as “bunny.flv.”
Thumb URL - You can provide the thumb URL as “car.jpg.”
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Preview URL - You can provide the preview URL as “bunny.jpg”
Adding videos through Embed Code:
Using this method, videos can be added via embed code. You can display other players from different
website in your website using embed codes. For example, you can display YouTube or Vimeo videos in your
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site.
Example:
YouTube Embed code:-

<iframe width=”560” height=”315” src=”//www.youtube.com/embed/vlu85WQTPRc” frameborder=”0”
allowfullscreen></iframe>
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Note: The embed video upload method will be available only in Pro version.

Category
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Here you can see a list categories
created by the Administrator
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Add Category
You can create a new category here.
Parent Category - To create a new root

category select ‘Main’ or if you want to
create a sub-category, select an existing root
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category from the dropdown.
Category Name - Enter the name of the

category.
Status - Select ‘Published’ to display the category in front-end, else choose ‘Unpublished’.
Player Settings
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Buffer time - You can set the buffer time of the
player to save portions of a streaming Media file to
local storage for a playback.
Width - You can specify the width of the player in
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pixels (px).
Stage color - Set the background color for the player

in the format.(Ex: 0xdddddd)
Normal screen scale - You have three choices

to set. Aspect ratio which controls the player size
proportionally, fit-to-screen which plays the video to
the player size declared, original size plays the videoin
the original video size irrespective of the player size
declared.
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Full screen - You can enable or disable Full screen

button on the player.
Zoom -You can enable or disable Zoom button on the

player.
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Volume - You can set the default volume level when

the video plays.
Share Button - Share button on the player can be

disabled here.

Playlist Auto play - You have two options for playlist auto play (enable/disable). If you enable this
option, it will start playing all the videos from the category one by one automatically. If you disable this
option you need to select the play button for each videos.
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Playlist Open - If this option is enabled, the related videos will always show in the player. Please note
that this is applicable only if ‘Related videos view’ is set to ‘Side’.
Display Default Image - You can decide whether you want to display default preview image (when it
does not exist) for the video within the player or not.
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Enable Download - You can enable or disable Download button on the player.
Description Visible - You can decide whether you want to display description of the video within the
player or not.
Display Progress Bar - Progress bar can be disabled from here for player control.
Skin Opacity - You can specify a level of transparency for the skin.
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Subtitle Background Color - You can specify a color for the subtitle Background.
Subtitle Font Size -You can specify a size for the subtitle font.
Skin auto hide - Automatically hide the skin by enabling

this option. Skin can be displayed by hovering the mouse.
Height - You can specify the width of the player in pixels
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(px).
FFMPEG Binary path - Declare the FFMPEG path given

by your hosting provider if you want to generate duration for
uploaded videos. You can leave it as it is if your server does
not support FFMPEG.
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Full screen scale - This setting affects only on full screen
mode.
Auto Play - If this option is enabled, video will start playing

without users clicking the play button, else you need to play it
manually.
Timer - Timer on the player controls can be enabled/

disabled.
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Login Page URL- Registered customers will be asked to

login to watch particular videos. When the customer clicks on
Login button it will be re directed to a page. You can set that
page URL using this ‘Login Page URL’ setting.
Related Videos view - You can decide whether you want to display the related videos in the center or in
the side.
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HD Default - You can set the videos to playback in HD by default. Make sure you have declared HD Video
path/uploaded HD videos.
Related Videos - You can decide whether you want to display related videos within the player or not.

Embed Visible - By enabling this option, we can allow users to share the video on other sites using
Embed code method.
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Display Email - By enabling this option, viewers can directly send an E-Mail to their friends and refer this
video.
Volume visible - Volume button on the player can be disabled here.
Display Skin - You can Enable/Disable skin in the player. If the skin is disabled, users will not be able to
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control the player.
Subtitle Text Color - You can enter the color code for the subtitle text.
Subtitle Font Family - You can enter the font family name for the subtitle text.
Pre/Post- Roll Ad Settings
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Pre- roll ad - You can enable/
disable the pre-roll ads.
Post - roll ad - You can enable/

disable the post-roll ads.
IMA Ad - You can enable/disable

IMA ads.
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Ad Skip - You can decide whether you want to display ‘Skip ad’ while playing ads.
Ad Skip Duration - Set the time duration after which the ‘Skip ad’ button should appear.
Google Analytics - You can enter the Google track code.
Mid Roll Settings
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If you enable IMA Ad then your Pre-roll and Post-roll ads will not be played in the player.
Mid- roll ad - You can enable/disable the mid-roll ads.
Begin - You can decide the time when the mid-roll should be displayed.
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Rotate - You can enable/disable mid-roll rotate option. It will display mid-roll ads one by one.
Mid roll Ads Random - You can either enable/disable random display of mid-roll ads.
Ad Interval - You can enter the time gap between ads.

Logo Settings
PREFACE
Demo logo will be removed only if you provide the license on the License Key field which you can
obtain by purchasing it online from our Website. If you are using the free version, simply click on
Buy Now button to purchase the license.
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Logo - You can upload the logo by clicking change button. Allowed extensions are png, gif, jpeg,
jpg.
Logo Target URL - Enter your website

URL, so that when someone click on the
logo it will take them to the website that
you have mentioned here.
Logo Alpha - To set the value for logo
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transparency ( brightness ) , you can set
the percentage here.
Logo Position - You can set the

position of the logo. You can place the
logo in top left / right
and bottom left / right.
Player Color Configuration
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Share Popup Header Color - You can
change the header color of the popup window.
Share Popup Background Color - You

can change the background color of the popup
window.
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Share Popup Text Color - You can change
the text color of the popup window .
Send Button Color - You can change the send

button background color on the player.
Send Button Text Color - You can change

the send button text color on the player.
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Player Text Color - You can change the whole

text color of the player.
Skin Background Color - You can change

the background color of the skin.
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Seek Bar Color - You can change the Seek bar color in the skin.
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Buffer Bar Color - You can change the buffer bar color.
Skin Icons Color - You can change the all the icon colors of the skin.
Progress Bar Background Color - You can change the background color of the progress bar.
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Play Button Color - You can change the play button color.
Play Button Background Color - You can change the background color of the play button.
Player Buttons Color - You can change the color of player buttons such as Share, Zoom, etc.
Player Buttons Background Color - You can change the background color of player buttons such
as Share, Zoom, etc.
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Related Videos Background Color - You can change the background color of related videos being
displayed inside the player. It is applicable only for “Side Related view”
Related Videos Scroll Bar Color - You can change the scroll bar color of related videos
being displayed inside the player. It is applicable only for “Side Related view” .
Related Videos Scroll Bar Background Color - You can change the scroll bar background color of
related videos being displayed inside the player. It is applicable only for “Side Related view”.
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Site Settings
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Comment system - You can select the
type of commenting system you want.
We are providing three types : Facebook,
Disqus and Default Comments
Facebook API – If you are using

facebook comment, then you need to
enter your Facebook APP ID here.
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Disqus short Name - If you are using

Disqus comments, then you need to enter
your Short name key here. To use Disqus
Comments, go to Admin -> Plugins ->
Add new and enter “disqus comments”
in search box and install Disqus plugin.
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Now you need to create new account and

register your site with Disqus. They will
give you a short name for your account.
Please enter that short name in video
gallery settings page and save settings.

We can control the number of
rows and columns of the thumb
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images to be displayed in the front
end for the following videos and
views.
• Recent Videos
• Featured Videos
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• Popular Videos
• Category View
• Search View
• Related Videos
• My Videos
• Member Page View
• Side Popular Videos
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• Side Featured Videos
• Side Related Videos
• Side Recent Videos
• Side Random Videos
• Home Page Popular Videos
• Home Page Featured Videos
• Home Page Recent Videos
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Video Upload Option to
Members : You can Enable or
Disable this option allow/disallow
Members to upload videos.
Admin approval for Member
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videos : If you like to review the
videos uploaded by Members select
“yes” otherwise select “No”.
Members Login/Register : You

can Enable or Disable this option to
allow/disallow Members to login and
new users to Register.
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Display Ratings : Enable/Disable the Ratings displayed in the frontend.
Display Viewed : Enable/Disable the View Count displayed in the frontend.
Report Video : Members can Report the video if you have enabled this option.
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Display player on category page : If you would like to display player in a Category page then select
“Yes” else choose “No”.
Display Social Links : Enable /Disable Social icons displayed in frontend.

Store videos in Amazon S3 bucket : If “Yes” is selected, the videos will be stored in Amazon S3 bucket
if you have an account in Amazon S3 server.
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Search Engine Friendly URLs : You can Enable/Disable the search engine friendly url to show the video
title and category name in the URL.
Select upload method(s) for users : You can select the methods in which members can upload their
videos.
Google Adsense
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If you have a Google Adsense account, you can configure it here. To use it, you need to enable “Publish” on
this page to display the ads in components, modules and plug-in.
Enter the Code: You can

enter the Google Adsense code
here.
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Option : Option for showing
the ads always and close it in
the specified timings.
Reopen : Option to set the

timings to reopen the ad again
once it gets closed.
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Published : Option to publish
or un-publish the Google
AdSense.
Video Ads
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You can manage the video ads here.
Pre-/Post-Roll:
Pre-roll ads are

the ads which play
before the original
video plays.
Post-roll ads are the

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ads which play after

the original video
played.
You can add the

videos either by file
or url
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Here you can upload or provide URL of the video ads which can be set as pre-roll or post-roll ads while adding
videos.
Also you can provide Ad Name, Ad Description, Target URL, Click Hits URL, and Impression Hits as explained
in the Midroll settings.

Mid Roll Ads:
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Mid-roll is a text ad which displays on the player in the middle of the video.
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Ad Title – Option to add a title for pre-/post-/mid-roll and ima ads.
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Ad Description - You can add description for pre-/post-/mid-roll and ima ads.
Target URL - Here you can set the target URL for pre-/post-/mid-roll ads.
Click Hits URL - Here you can get the view count of how many times the user clicks on the ad and goes
to the target URL.
Impression Hits URL – Here you can get the view count of how many times the ad shows on the player
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with the video.
Published - Option to publish/Unpublish ads.
IMA Ads:
IMA ads may be text ad or a video ad

which displays on the player in the
middle of the video.
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IMA Ad Type - You can select the IMA

Ad type as Text or Video.
IMA Ad Path - You have to provide the

IMA Ad path here
Content Id - Enter the content Id

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provided by third party Ad providers.
Published : You can enable/disable the

IMA ad.

Front End
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Login
Separate Signup/Login is
not needed to register with
HD Video Share. Users can
login using
Joomla Username and
Password, i.e. login into
Joomla website and
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access HD Video Share
application.
My Videos
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Once you have registered, you will
get the following links namely,
“MyVideos” and “Logout”.
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Video Upload
Users can click ‘Add Video’ to

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upload a new video. Admin can

specify the video type to be
displayed for the users in the site
settings. Options for entering
description in the frontend is the
same as the options provided for
the admin panel.
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Free Add-ons
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GETTING STARTED
CONFIGURATION
Apptha provides two free Add-ons for HD Video Share. These can be downloaded by clicking on the
“Free Add-ons” button at the bottom right corner of the HD Video Share product page.
HVS Article
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This plugin gives you a set of plugin codes to enhance your joomla articles with videos. You can even
use these plugin codes in K2 items. This plugin is already included with the HD Video Share package
and is automatically installed along with HD Video Share.
Steps to Configure HVS Article
1. You can use this plugin with Joomla Article and K2 Component
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2. This plugin includes the following Attributes
* videoid
* height
* width
* autoplay
* categoryid
* playlistautoplay
* type
3. Below are the sample formats for plugin shortcode

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1.[hdvs videoid=1 categoryid=1 width=700 height=300 autoplay=true playlistautoplay=true]
2.[hdvs videoid=2 width=700 height=300]
3.[hdvs type=pop] or [hdvs type=pop width=700 height=300] or [hdvs type=pop width=700 height=300
autoplay=true playlistautoplay=true]
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4.[hdvs type=rec] or [hdvs type=rec width=700 height=300] or [hdvs type=rec width=700 height=300
5.[hdvs type=fea] or [hdvs type=fea width=700 height=300] 0r [hdvs type=fea width=700 height=300

HVS Komento
This plugin is a bridge between HD Video Share and Komento. You can use Komento as your commenting
PREFACE
system in HD Video Share.
To use this plugin, you should have pre-installed Komento and Contus HD Video Share extensions in your
joomla website. If you are sure that you have both of these already installed, download HVS Komento plugin
by clicking on the “Free Add-ons” button at the bottom right corner of the HD Video Share product page.
GETTING STARTED
http://www.apptha.com/
category/extension/Joomla/HD-
Video-Share
Once it is downloaded,install it
through Extension Manager.
CONFIGURATION
Steps to Configure Komento
1. Go to Components -> Contus HD Video Share -> Site settings -> And select “Commenting System” as
“None” and save.
2. Go to Components -> Komento -> Integration -> FRONTEND

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Select HD Video Share -> select "Yes" for "Enable
Comments" under "General" and click "save"
FAQ
Go to Components -> Komento

-> ACL -> Choose HD Video
Share -> Select "Public" and click
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"Save" button.

? FAQ
PREFACE
1. How to translate the component to any language?
GETTING STARTED
http://www.apptha.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=1803
2. How to display videos from newer to older in categories?

https://www.apptha.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=1098
3. How to remove the unwanted tooltip from the home page?

4. If view count is not updated in the mobile devices

http://www.apptha.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=2034&hilit=view+count
CONFIGURATION
5. How to generate RSS feed?
6. HD Video Share Compatible with Komento

7. How to display JComments in the home page?

FRONTEND
8. If you receive message while uploading videos to check the memory size in php
http://blog.contus.com/how-to-increase-upload-limit-via-php/
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FAQ
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PREFACE
Contact Us
GETTING STARTED
Customization
If you would like to customize or discuss about additional features for Joomla HD Video Share, please
write to bdm@apptha.com
CONFIGURATION
Forums
Before you send us an email or raising tickets, take a look at our forums for any technical issues, common
questions and more. We may have already answered your question.
Forum: http://www.apptha.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=45
FRONTEND
Live Chat
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Get instant support with our Live Chat.
Visit our product page at http://www.apptha.com/category/extension/Joomla/HD-Video-Share and click

on the Live Chat button for instant support.
FAQ
Tickets
Raise tickets for your specific questions!
Send an email to assist@apptha.com or you can login to my account at www.apptha.com and click on My
support tickets on your account dashboard, to get answers to your specific questions. Our team will work
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It includes the following modules:

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can be purchased for your website by offering a onetime fee.

After purchasing the extension from www.apptha.com, kindly go to My Account-> My Downloadable

Product to download the package.

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Go to Joomla Admin --> Extensions --> Extension Manager

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Go to Joomla Admin --> Extensions --> Extension Manager

How to generate license key

To assign this component for a

Select “Home” under Contus HD Video Share from the popup.

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1. Sort the videos by drag and drop.

2. You can modify the comments under comment column.

6. You can view ratings and number of views of any video.

7. You can view/delete videos of any particular user.

8. You can publish or un-publish any videos added by users

2. Admin can enable /disable upload option for particular user.

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Add New Video

Title - Enter a title for the video that you add.

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Category - Choose the category of this video from this dropdown

Mid-roll ad - Enable or Disable the banner ad while playing the video.

IMA ad - Enable or Disable the Intermediate ad while playing the video.

Status – Publish/Unpublish this video.

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You can add videos and images

folder on your web server and

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Adding portion of videos from Youtube:

Here are the steps:

2. Click the share button which is in the bottom of the video.

Adding videos through FFMPEG:

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Streamer path : rtmp://server-ip-address/folder name

1. [Protocol]: You can use the

2. [Server name]: This is the

3. [Application]: Use “vod”

4. [Stream name]: Use the

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Streamer Path - You need to provide the streamer path as

Is Live - This option is to enable/disable whether the video is live or not.

Video URL - You need to provide the video URL as “bunny.flv.”

Thumb URL - You can provide the thumb URL as “car.jpg.”

Adding videos through Embed Code:

YouTube Embed code:-

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You can create a new category here.

Parent Category - To create a new root

Category Name - Enter the name of the

Width - You can specify the width of the player in

Stage color - Set the background color for the player

Normal screen scale - You have three choices

Full screen - You can enable or disable Full screen

Zoom -You can enable or disable Zoom button on the

Volume - You can set the default volume level when

Share Button - Share button on the player can be

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